"The Fall of Atlantis" (Gibel Atlantidy)
- Technique
- Tempera
- Cycle
- Secret Doctrine
- "Four Hands" Technique
- Joint creation by the duo on a single canvas
- Collection
- Grev Kafi Museum, Chișinău
About the Work
A painterly meditation on the fate of civilizations: through the Platonic subject — on the price of historical errors and the fragility of culture.
The work does not illustrate the text literally but becomes a painterly meditation on measure, responsibility and the fragility of culture. The theme of Atlantis is tied to the ancient philosophical tradition and to Plato's account of a civilization that lost its measure.
For the viewer of today this image matters because it turns myth into a philosophical language — a way of speaking about power, responsibility and the limits of human authority.
The canvas belongs to the "Secret Doctrine" cycle, linked to the book of the same name by H. P. Blavatsky: the memory of civilizations, symbolic history and a philosophical view of humanity's development.
Symbolism & Interpretation
What becomes of a culture when it loses its measure?
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